France, Natural and Eternal: A Photographer's Journey
The second solo photography exhibition titled 'France, Natural and Eternal: A Photographer's Journey' by Shibly Shiraj is set to begin at Alliance Franchise de Dhaka (AFD) in the capital's Dhanmondi area. The inaugural ceremony of the exhibition will be held at 5:30pm on Friday in La Galerie.
Ramendu Majumder, Honorary President, International Theatre Institute (IIT) will attend the opening ceremony as the chief guest.
"The eye of the camera can capture more than what we see with our naked eyes. The success of a person with a camera depends somewhat on how much more he or she can add to the fleeting glimpse of the scene. I always aspire to add new dimension in my photographic endeavors.
In doing so I'm most attracted by the nature itself. It is not only the beauty of the nature but also the diversity of such beauty and its place in the mind of the masses entice me. We all appreciate nature but the phenomenon that nature also defines us sometimes escapes us. The pulchritude of nature has attracted the painters, especially the French impressionists who found a new way, a dimension per se, in depicting it."
In March 2019 Shibly Shiraj took a three week-long journey in France. He rented a car and drove on the highways and the country roads. Travelling around France, from the north coast to the south and from the sea to the mountains, he took pictures of vast natures capes, and of tiny stones in a running stream - the village home of Édouard Manet enchanted Shiraj and he tried looking at it from the perspective of the nature that surrounds it.
